Nicholas D Steeves <[email protected]> writes: > On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 08:29:45AM -0300, David Bremner wrote: >> >> This seems to be unmaintained, and at least at first glance, the >> functionality is now built into GNU emacs as hl-line-mode. > > Agreed. The finer points to potential differences are lost to me. > > One caveat: debian/patches/50_highlight-beyond-fill-column.diff > uses highlight-current-line's configuration group, thus I suspect > removing highlight-current-line's emacs-goodies custom configuration > will break highlight-beyond-fill-column. Is beyond-fill-column also a > target for removal?
Yes, as Eli Barzilay points out in the stack overflow discussion you found, the functionality of highlight-beyond-fill-colummn is provided by whitespace-line-column (I just tested, and the only difference seems to be the default choice of face to use to highlight. d
